Victory Quotes - Page 35

• He had by now divested himself of schoolboy attitudes. He was unburdened by the desire to be a martyr or a hero. Any thoughts in that direction, Belgica effectively had quashed. Heroism in the corrupt sense of the age almost by definition, meant wanton self-sacrifice and bungling. For neither had he any taste. He wanted rational attainment; victory, but not at any price. No point upon the globe was worth the cost of a single life.

  Roland Huntford

  Life, Attitude, Hero

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• Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake. A win without art is somehow less than a victory; less, almost, than a beautiful defeat. In football, the romantic and the pragmatist are ever at war in the same breast. Beauty, it must be understood here, is not Barcelona's aim but their method. And last night they were ready to use this method at every opportunity - quick-fire passing of wit and purpose in the danger areas, seeking always to produce an unlooked-for player in a position of threat.

  Simon Barnes

  Beautiful, Soccer, Football

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• And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.

  Plato

  Party, Winning, Office

  Plato (1935). “The Republic”

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• No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.

  Pope Leo I

  Faith, Prayer, Inspiration

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• To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

  Plato

  Pick Me Up, Development And Growth, Personal Growth

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• I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Happiness, Fun, Joy

  Lawana Blackwell (2007). “The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter (The Gresham Chronicles Book #2)”, p.509, Baker Books

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• Second, the reason to embrace and celebrate these novels as the countercultural event that they are is due largely to the subliminal messages delivered by Harry and friends in their stolen wheelbarrows. Readers walk away, maybe a little softer on the occult than they were, but with story-embedded messages: the importance of a pure soul; love's power even over death; about sacrifice and loyalty; a host of images and shadows about Christ and how essential 'right belief' is for personal transformation and victory over internal and external evils.

  John Granger

  Love, Loyalty, Sacrifice

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• Those who give up cannot gain victory.” It’s not victory that is so important, but the fighting spirit. Even if you fail, I think even just the attitude of not giving up is beautiful in itself.

  Lee Min-ho

  Beautiful, Attitude, Giving Up

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• Brendan O’Meara’s Six Weeks in Saratoga is a victory to be savored by those who treasure good writing in general and tales of the track in particular. Horses may win races, but they also win hearts as this impressive book proves beyond doubt. A memorable, sure-footed debut.

  Madeleine Blais

  Horse, Book, Memorable

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• The rise of the Net and the Web represents a victory for the counterculture and the subculture. The next generation, raised on the Net as their primary medium, won't even know what consensus reality is.

  R. U. Sirius

  Reality, Next, Generations

  R. U. Sirius, Andrei Codrescu (2000). “The revolution: quotations from revolution party chairman R.U. Sirius”

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• He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.

  Hesiod

  Men, Suffering, Stronger

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• Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house. But defeat is a thing of weariness, of incoherence, of boredom. And above all of futility.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Believe, Sweat, People

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• The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute

  Damian Marley

  Motivational, Self, Hip Hop

  Song: Strong Will Continue, Album: Distant Relatives, 2010

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• The military ain't there for the people's protection,
  They're just there to protect an investment.
  That's why people get arrested, electrocuted, molested,
  Connected streets are infested with those tired of protesting.
  Traumatized children grown in guerrilla garrisons,
  9/11 generations pale in comparison.
  And you will learn a lesson repeated through history:
  That no matter what you think, occupation is not victory.

  Immortal Technique

  Children, Military, Rap

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• A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Order, Justice, Encounters

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• As with military campaigns, cultural warfare is always decided over the pragmatic problems of strategy, organization and resources. . . . The factions with the best strategies, most efficient organization, and access to resources will plainly have the advantage and very possibly, the ultimate victory.

  James Davison Hunter

  Military, Organization, Warfare

  James Davison Hunter (1992). “Culture Wars: The Struggle To Control The Family, Art, Education, Law, And Politics In America”, p.64, Basic Books

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• It's a huge challenge for us to get the (43) car back to Victory Lane, to get the car in the Chase, to get back to where I would love to see us win the championship, ... Is it a reality next year You've seen a lot of things happen in the sport and you look at it and ask 'How'd that happen'

  Robbie Loomis

  Sports, Winning, Reality

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• The victory of Mr. Kostunica will be a reality.

  Javier Solana

  Reality

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• This is a victory against those who promote terrorism, against hypocrites who tout a supposed war on terror and in reality protect terrorists and jail young men who only acted to oppose terrorism in the United States.

  Ricardo Alarcon

  War, Hypocrite, Reality

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• I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

  Alexander Smith

  Memorial Day, Song, Singing

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.144

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• Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

  William McKinley

  Peace, Real, War

  William McKinley (2012). “A Supplement to A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents”, p.549, tredition

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• When a people, having become free, establish wise laws, their revolution is complete... Peace and prosperity, public virtue, victory, everything is in the vigor of the laws. Outside of the laws, everything is sterile and dead.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Wise, Law, People

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's remarks on autumn 1792, as quoted in "Oeuvres Completes de Saint-Just", Volume 1, edited by Charles Vellay, 1908.

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• That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Hands, Law, Being Ignored

  Opening statement for the prosecution before International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany, 21 Nov. 1945

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• Defeat has its lessons as well as victory.

  Pat Buchanan

  Political, Lessons, Defeat

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• Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Father, Political, Politics

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